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Having problems with your Digital Cameras ?

I have a brand new Canon PowerShot SD750 camera, I have a sundisk imback 1gb memory card in the camera. I took a bunch of VERY IMPORTANT photos over the past two weeks and suddenly the camera says "Memory Card Error" and I have lost access to my photos and cannot take photos unless I put in another memory card. Are my photos lost for ever, or is there a way to access them?

Hi ,\015\012 You could try this Card recovery software - free to download CLICK HERE\015\012\015\012If the card is new and still under a manufacturers guarantee - I would try for a full refund on it. They do fail with increasing regularity, so in future I would opt for smaller capacity cards.\015\012\015\012I have not found out yet if the failures are due to mechanical faults, handling damage, electrostatic discharges or simply instability of the chip. In theory they should last as long as other slid state chips - but problems are reported here daily. If you can give any details of possible reasons please do.Due to the unprotected contacts, I would opt for electrostatic discharge - from acrylic clothing.\015\012\015\012You should be able to recover at least half of the recorded data, but I make no promises if any can actually be recovered.

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